The Profit Prophet

The Theranos of Tampons: How Period Poverty Created a $50 Million Fraud

Episode Summary

In 2019, a Stanford dropout convinced Silicon Valley that she'd revolutionized feminine hygiene with a subscription tampon that could predict your cycle. The only problem? The technology was physically impossible, the testimonials were fake, and the 'revolutionary' tampons were just rebranded drugstore products marked up 400%. We dig into how investors threw millions at period tech without understanding basic biology.